HOUSING PUBLICATIONS
RECENT TAC HOUSING PUBLICATIONS
Priced Out in 2010 A biennial report published by TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force verifies that low-income people with disabilities are experiencing a national housing affordability crisis. (2011)
Connecting with Medicaid: Strategies and options for providers of services to people who are homeless
This brief summarizes various options for providers interested in establishing clearer pathways or connections with Medicaid, including key questions to consider for providers interested in delivering Medicaid services. This is the second in a series of briefs developed by the Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. (TAC) intended to assist advocates who work on behalf of people who are homeless, providers, and policy makers understand and capitalize upon opportunities in the ACA to prevent and end homelessness.
Federal Housing Resources Guide.
This guide highlights a few of the programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that are relevant to the housing needs of low-income people with disabilities including people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. (2011)
TAC and CCD Summary of the HUD 2009 Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities Report –
A summary of the supplement to HUD’s Worst Case Housing Needs 2009: Report to Congress, which significantly improves previous estimates of need among renter households that contain very low income non-elderly adults with disabilities. (2011)
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ALL HOUSING PUBLICATIONS
Accessible Housing for People with Disabilities – provides an overview of the history of the laws that affect accessibility modifications; the impact of these laws on tenants and owners; possible sources for funding accessibility modifications; and the role of the disability community in advocating for the enforcement of these laws.
Assessment of Continuum of Care Progress in Assisting Homeless people to Access Mainstream Resources – The Cases of Maryland, Michigan, and Tennessee (2006)
Affordable Housing in Your Community What You Need to Know! What You Need to Do! – focuses on realistic strategies for getting involved with the development of the strategic plans in your community that control access to housing funding, specifically the Consolidated Plan and the Public Housing Agency Plan.
Best Practice Principles for Achieving Civil Rights in Permanent Supportive Housing – includes a discussion of best practice principles that can be used to achieve a vision of supportive housing that comes closer to an ideal: permanent affordable, integrated, community-based housing where the right to occupy the housing unit is based on standard landlord-tenant laws, and in which flexible, on-demand supportive services are available and controlled by the tenant.
Challenging Choices: Housing Development 101 – signed to help people with disabilities, advocates, and service providers understand the basics of affordable housing development, or Housing Development 101.
The Consolidated Plan: A Key to Expanding Housing for People with Disabilities – provides a discussion of the Consolidated Plan (ConPlan) and provides answers to several important questions including: What is the ConPlan? How does it influence housing policies and federally funded housing activities? And, most importantly, how can the disability community use the ConPlan process to expand housing opportunities for people with disabilities?
Defining Chronic Homelessness: A Technical Guide for HUD Programs This guide provides information on HUD's definition of chronically homeless, including sample forms to document chronic homeless status. (2007)
Trainer Guide to Contiuum of Care Planning and Implementation This guide is designed for trainers to use in presentations to providers about the design and implementation of Continuum of Care systems. The trainer guide is accompanied by overheads and talking points for the trainer's use and has a companion set of reference materials and worksheets. (1999)
The Hidden Housing Crisis Report This study found that an estimated 2.1 -2.4 million of the 6 million households in the United States with "worst case" housing needs (35-40 percent of the total) are non-elderly disabled households. (2008)
Homeownership for People with Disabilities: A Movement in the Making – a discussion of homeownership for people with disabilities, including: the key ingredients of successful homeownership efforts for people with disabilities; a candid discussion of the ongoing challenges confronting people with disabilities who want to become homeowners; and case studies of successful homeownership initiatives that are helping people with disabilities own homes of their own in communities across the country.
How To Be A Player in the Continuum of Care: A Guide to the Mental Health Community A guidebook designed to provide the disability community with the tools to be active participants in the Continuum of Care process in their community. (2000)
HUD's HOME Program: Can It Really Work for People with Disabilities? – provides information to help the disability community learn more about the HOME program, how it works, and how it can be used to expand affordable housing for people with disabilities.
Influencing Affordable Housing Decisions In Your Community – provides an overview of the affordable housing delivery system and types of federal housing resources available; outlines factors that influence affordable housing decision, especially housing needs data and advocacy; identifies practical strategies for the disability community to document housing needs; and finally, it illustrates how to use the housing needs information to affect affordable housing decisions.
Live-In Aides and the Housing Choice Voucher Program: Fact Sheet This fact sheet provides an explanation of HUD's regulatory requirements, as well as ideas for PHAs to consider in setting local standards. (2003)
The New Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program – provides an overview of the HPRP program, including basic homeless prevention and rapid re-housing approaches, and suggests feasible strategies that HPRP grantees could adopt to ensure that a portion of these funds are utilized by people with disabilities. Includes a special section on how Public Housing Agencies can play a role in HPRP-funded activities.
New Section 811 Supportive Housing Program Legislation Introduced in US Congress – describes critically important legislation that will help address the enormous and unrelenting housing crisis faced by millions of extremely low-income people with disabilities and will spur the creation of thousands more new 811 units every year.
Olmstead and Supportive Housing: A Vision for the Future A "white paper" on best practices and future strategies to expand permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities covered by the U.S. Supreme Court's Olmstead decision. (2001)
Permanent Supportive Housing: A Proven Solution to Homelessness – examines the recent focus on chronic homelessness and provides important research, data, and a concrete solution: permanent supportive housing.
Piecing It All Together: Playing the Housing Game A resource book for communities and states for developing strategies for addressing the needs of people with disabilities as part of HUD's Consolidated Plan process. (1999)
Priced Out in 2010A biennial report published by TAC and the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force verifies that low-income people with disabilities are experiencing a national housing affordability crisis. (2011)
Regional Housing Forum: A Technical Assistance Guide for Housing Resources and Strategy A resource book of information on housing resources and strategies to assist people with disabilities covered by the Olmstead decision.
Replicable Best Practices for Accessing Mainstream Resources: A Guide for Continuums of Care (2006)
Rural Housing Challenges: Meeting the Housing Needs of People with Disabilities in Rural Communities – provides information about the housing challenges facing rural America, including barriers to affordable housing in rural areas, expanding housing opportunities, and available resources for homeless people in rural areas.
Save Section 811 with the New Community Integration Paradigm An article devoted to how the new Section 811 legislation will help create additional units of supportive housing for people with disabilities in an issue of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Magazine. (2009)
Section 8 Made Simple This guidebook contains practical information to assist people with disabilities and the entire disability community to navigate through the Section 8 program more successfully. (2003)
Section 8: The New Housing Choice Voucher Program – provides information about the largest federal housing program for people with extremely low-incomes including: what the Section 8 program is; who administers the program; how to influence local policies; and how PHAs manage Section 8 applications, waiting lists, and issuing vouchers.
The Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program: Creating New Housing Opportunities for People with Disabilities – provides a basic overview of a new HUD Final Rule that now makes it much easier for PHAs to use the Project-Based Voucher program (PBV), including expanding affordable and accessible housing opportunities for people with disabilities.
Seizing the Moment This guidebook contains details on approaches to help the mental health and homeless communities participate in HUD's Consolidated Plan process. (1999)
Solutions that Work: Innovative Strategies to Meeting the Housing Needs of People with Disabilities – describes three "best practices," including the basic steps to implement these strategies in your state or community.
State Housing Agencies – How They Can Help People with Disabilities – describes the various types of state housing agencies and the resources they control. It also identifies strategies for using these resources to expand housing options for people with disabilities with the lowest incomes.
Strategies to Help People with Disabilities Be Successful in the Housing Choice Voucher Program This publication provides guidance for Public Housing Agencies administering housing choice vouchers targeted to people with disabilities. (2002)
Using the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program to Create Affordable Housing for People with Disabilities – provides basic information on the LIHTC program, information on the state's role in the LIHTC program, and specific approaches that can help people with disabilities benefit from the LIHTC program, including strategies that combine the LIHTC program with other federal housing programs to produce rental housing units affordable to people with disabilities with the lowest incomes.
Using the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to Help Create Permanent Supportive Housing – provides an overview of HUD's new Neighborhood Stabilization Program, documents the purpose and history of the program, discusses how the funds are distributed, describes the ways that NSP can be used to create permanent supportive housing, and suggests strategies that can be used by the disability community to work with NSP grantees.
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